Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 150

"Old man, I assure you that if you are not given justice, I am willing to hang my seal and resign." Li Canghai said seriously.

Xiao Wu was taken aback, he didn't expect Li Canghai to say such words.

The old woman was also dumbfounded. The high and mighty county magistrate not only condescended to come to her house, but also made such a promise to himself, which was unheard of.

After a while, the old woman realized that she turned around and walked into the house.

Li Canghai and Xiao Wu looked at each other, a little confused.

The old woman came out of the house with an extra package in her hand.

"My lord... If you can really avenge my son, the old woman will be a cow and a horse in the next life, and repay my lord." The old woman was crying, she rubbed the package in her hand, and said: "This is what my son left. He had an accident, and when someone comes to investigate, he will give this thing to the investigator."

"Oh?"

Li Canghai felt a little surprised, he had already noticed the package when he heard her talk just now, and when he saw the old woman take it out, he immediately felt that the package was very important.

Opening the package, Li Canghai found several ingots of gold, several porcelain vases and unopened letters inside.

Xiao Wu picked up an ingot of gold, weighed it a few times, and said in surprise: "My lord, this ingot of gold is worth twelve taels!"

Li Canghai was a little surprised. After he was reborn, it took him a long time to understand the value of Tang Dynasty currency.

During the period of Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan of the Tang Dynasty, "Kaiyuan Tongbao" was cast and created a currency policy based on text.

That is, one copper coin is one penny, 100 copper coins are one coin, ten coins are one tael of silver, and ten taels of silver are one gold.

At this time, it was the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, and the price of a bucket of rice was about [-] Wen, and one ingot of gold was enough to live for a small family for a year.

There are three horseshoe gold ingots here, and each ingot has ten taels, which is 30 taels.

This is definitely not a small amount of wealth, enough to allow the old woman to live a prosperous life.

However, the old woman had nothing to eat, and Xiao Wu couldn't figure it out, so he asked:
"Old man, with so much money, why don't you use it?"

"This is the evidence left by my son. Even if the old woman starves to death, she must keep it to avenge my son!" the old woman said, wiping her tears.

Xiao Wu fell silent, Li Canghai suddenly felt very uncomfortable.

He picked up the envelope, opened it and looked at it, and there was a bright light in his eyes.

"Old man, these things are the evidence to identify the murderer. I will take them away first."

Li Canghai put away the package, wrapped the leg bones, and talked to her a few more words before leaving with Xiao Wu.

After the two left, the old woman suddenly found two money bags on the stake where the two were sitting.

The old woman understood in an instant. Holding two money bags, she knelt tremblingly in the direction where the two left, and murmured: "Thank you, sir, thank you, sir."

"My lord, what is written on this envelope?" Xiao Wu wrapped the package and asked curiously.

"On the envelope is the guy's self-report. He agreed to Wang Buquan's request in order to see a doctor for his old lady, and drugged Zuo Hongji and others on the road. The few ingots of gold were for him. The letter said, Wang Buquan He told him that he wanted Zuo Hongji's money, but he didn't expect that they would kill all the buddies. He escaped by chance, knowing that he would be silenced sooner or later, so he kept the truth and hid himself in a brothel. I hope I can escape this disaster.”

"It seems that the result is not satisfactory. He was still found by Wang Buquan, and he was poisoned to silence him." Xiao Wu sighed.

Li Canghai squinted his eyes, and said deeply: "Wang Buquan is a man who does many evils, and it is not enough to get rid of the anger of the common people. Xiao Wu, how are you doing with the things that were arranged for you earlier?"

"Don't worry, my lord. I've already spread the news. Counting the time, they should have already arrived." Xiao Wu looked up at the sky and estimated.

The two talked while walking, and unconsciously walked to the tower.

There were several large pots lying under the city wall, and gruel was being boiled in the pots. Refugees kept coming in from outside the city, crowding forward to receive the porridge.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze! Line up, I, Zuo Hongji, assure everyone, everyone has a bowl of porridge and two steamed buns!"

Zuo Hongji stood on the carriage filled with rice bags, shouting loudly to maintain order.

Li Canghai thought in his heart, this is really what he wanted, since Zuo Hongji is here, it's a shame he went to Zuo's house for a while.

Asking Xiao Wu to go back first, Li Canghai walked over and said loudly: "Brother Zuo, you have worked hard!"

Seeing that it was Li Canghai, Zuo Hongji jumped down from the carriage with difficulty, wiped the sweat from his brow, and said with a smile: "Brother Li, your trick is really brilliant, in just one day, hundreds of refugees came to Zhengyang City. Look at this price, can it go up?"

Li Canghai hurriedly stretched out his finger, booed him, and reproached him: "Brother Zuo, how can you mention this in such a large audience?"

It was only then that Zuo Hongji realized that he had almost leaked the secret, and hurriedly covered his mouth. Fortunately, the refugees around were fighting for the steamed buns, and no one heard him.

Li Canghai gave him a wink, and after Zuo Hongji understood, he followed him to a remote corner.

"Brother Zuo, where is Wangxian Lieutenant?"

"Bones were found in Brother Wang's home. He must be busy investigating the truth right now." Zuo Hongji guessed.

There was a sneer at the corner of Li Canghai's mouth, and he said meaningfully: "I'm afraid he is covering up the truth."

Zuo Hongji asked with some puzzlement: "Brother Li, what do you mean by that?"

Li Canghai looked around and saw no one around, so he said in a low voice: "Brother Zuo should know that I found the bones of the Wang family, and I have been investigating this matter."

Zuo Hongji stroked his chin, and said in surprise: "You found the bones in Brother Wang's house? So, have you investigated and dealt with the murderer?"

Li Canghai shook his head. He deliberately lowered his voice, and said in a low voice: "Although I didn't find out the murderer, when I was looking for the truth, I found out another thing. This matter is related to Brother Zuo."

"Is it related to me? I didn't kill anyone!" Zuo Hongji pointed at his nose and was stunned.

"It's not that Brother Zuo killed someone, but this matter has a great relationship with Brother Zuo." Li Canghai said seriously.

Zuo Hongji was frightened by his words, and he asked cautiously: "What's the matter? Brother Li, just tell me, I can't bear it."

"About Brother Zuo being captured by bandits two years ago." Li Canghai said in a low voice.

After hearing this, Zuo Hongji laughed disapprovingly: "What did I think it was? It turned out to be this kind of thing. Yes, two years ago I took a few guys to Yangzhou to do business. On the way, I was robbed by bandits. It was Brother Wang. saved me."

"But the truth I found is far from that." Li Canghai said flatly.

(End of this chapter)